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Re:Every 5x5 Nonogram on Saturday May 31, 2025 @08:45AM (#44143904)
This is fun! But with more progress made, finding a puzzle to solve will become the hardest path.

Maybe a heat map of all sections based on completion percentage? And maybe a way to jump to the first or a random unsolved puzzle once you've opened a section?

We migrated away from an Elastic stack to a Loki stack, and were able to store order of magnitude more data for less money. Maybe we did Elastic wrong, but we tried various managed solutions and always ran into limits. The new Loki stack has always given quicker answers too.
We ran a Galera cluster for 4 days and it died on the first ALTER TABLE we did. Only option was to reduce it down to a Primary / Replica setup. I really can't recommend anyone using this.
Normally I'd agree, but... Have you seen today's status ? https://status.upcloud.com/ 6 hour downtime and no updates
Re:Building Outer Wonders for Linux on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:01AM (#27245091)
I made an attempt to compile glibc myself when I ran into the same issue when playing Nebukadnezzar on steam. But that is no easy task. I think it's directly tied into the rest of Linux. Targeting an older version of glibc is much easier.

(Nebukadnezzar recommended using Proton, which worked fine.)

Re:The right way to turn off your old APIs on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:18AM (#25880870)
Some of these suggestions (like the sleep(16)) also apply to non-HTTP APIs.

In fact, I find the headers part of the suggestion the least useful. No client will check these headers.

Re:DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:38AM (#18931033)
Testing my DNS server gets me:

    edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion,soa
    ednsopt=ok edns1opt=noerror,badversion,soa
Wikipedia doesn't mention anything about EDNS versions, so I'm not sure what to make of it.
Re:DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:24AM (#18930933)
I can't really find a simple explanation of what this means. The warnings in the EDNS compliance tester aren't really helpful either. Is there a simple explanation somewhere?
I've got Clink for tab completion and other cmd fancies.

https://mridgers.github.io/clink/

Re:Code Keyboards on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:49PM (#9290757)
I really need a curved keyboard, typing on a straight one just feels cramped. Other than that, looks fancy.
Re:The K-Cup Coffee Pod Problem on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:07AM (#9165181)
Anyone know how Keurig stands up to Senseo[1]? Those have pads that were biodegradable from the beginning. Also pads available from third parties, which is already validated by courts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senseo

Re:How Boston Removed Snow from Its Streets Throughout History on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:41AM (#8952169)
Boston is roughly at the same latitude as Barcelona, Spain O.o
> which is probably why Tesla switched to it recently

"Tesla's Battery Swap Stations Will Help It Requalify For ZEV Credits In California"

-- http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/12/30/tes...

Tesla would not make a profit without those credits.

-- http://seekingalpha.com/article/2724835-after-earning-tens-o...

Re:JavaScript Internationalization API on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:56AM (#8798483)
Formatting is nice and all that, but if you have input fields, then parsing is equally important. I don't see any of that in this api.
Re:‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB on Friday November 28, 2014 @03:31AM (#8670128)
Chrome tab has the title inverted as well
Re:Ask HN: What would it take to put Dart in browsers? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @04:25AM (#8463935)
Fix it? Fix what? Javascript is continuously rising up to the challenges of the web. What's there to fix?

"The most dangerous thing to a new invention is a current product that is 'good enough'."

Re:Show HN: Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship on Sunday September 21, 2014 @03:40AM (#8346599)
I'm just getting "Please enable Javascript" Checking out the console I'm getting two "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." errors during the localStorage access, probably due to me disabling cookies. Can't find which domain the cookies are under so can't play it now.
Missing mention: Pharaoh & Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom are two games following the history of Egypt and China (respectively)
Summary:

  "It's a policy-induced disaster. ... eurocrats  .... the euro is standing between them and recovery ... Europe is stuck with a fixed exchange system that doesn't let them print, spend, or devalue their way out of a crisis"
There's no source or data for any of these claims, so you can skip the article. IMHO, it's just an anti-euro rant. Why wouldn't Europe be able to print money like the USA does? Article doesn't say.
Re:Game of Hacks on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:04AM (#8136093)
I have no idea what most of those terms mean, no point in playing the quiz then
Re:Game about squares on Monday July 28, 2014 @04:52AM (#8095757)
Ooh, good tip, thanks!
Re:Game about squares on Monday July 28, 2014 @04:45AM (#8095744)
How's the stack work? I can't make it do anything else but move the blocks counterclockwise :/

Edit: Got it with stinos' comment

Either way you're paying...
Re:Yahoo ends support of “Do Not Track” on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:57AM (#7684975)
DNT is not designed to protect everyone's privacy, it was meant a way to grow a clear sign that people don't want to be tracked. If browsers really wanted to protect people's privacy, they'd block 3rd party cookies by default and show 1st party cookies as a warning.
Re:Yahoo ends support of “Do Not Track” on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:55AM (#7684965)
Then we can invent in a proper paywall, something that works unintrusively. And then users are the customers again, and we can get our internet back.
Re:Show HN: Space Frack, a fracking game in space on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:41AM (#7666075)
How come I lose when the two robots are in contact? Or, for that matters, when a person walks to me when I'm drilling, I get the PR backlash?

    Uber, which did not appear in court
O.o If you don't appear in court, you lose. It's like that every time. This is overblown.
Re:The 49-U6U Slaughterhouse on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @02:40AM (#7557963)
There's a lot of rebalancing going on ATM, I think they're doing rather well.

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